qjkxbmwvz @ qjkxbmwvz @startrek.website

Posts

3

Comments

1,196

Joined

2 yr. ago

Super cool. Chemical fuels (hydrocarbons or even plant oils) have ridiculous energy density, which is nice for e.g. cars but absolutely crucial for fast, long-range air travel. I don't think we'll be saying goodbye to jet engines for a long time, and it's awesome that we have ways of making fuel in a somewhat sustainable fashion.

The US Navy has experimented with this, but I think the idea is to use nuclear power instead of solar energy. Makes sense for an aircraft carrier with a big reactor and thirsty jets.

VNC over ssh or wireguard when remote graphics are required. Not as "polished," but it's nice not depending on a 3rd party.

I have a Mikrotik router, 2x VLAN-enabled switches, and 3x VLAN-enabled APs. My Internet access broke every day for a month while I figured out what I was doing.

Sure but how will they catch you if you just go to Transporter Room 3 and energize?

Kids these days can still enjoy the finer things in life.

I have an old (probably '60s) hifi amp. It's awesome. Replaced the selenium rectifier with silicon, replaced a few caps, and put fresh tubes in it.

It sounds...basically the same as modern solid state stuff to my untrained ear. It's pretty cool that in a sense we "solved" the problem of amplification back then. Most of the speakers of the day were probably complete crap by today's standards (unless you had something upscale like a pair of AR-3s), but a well designed amplifier from the era holds up well.

I wonder if this is width at waterline vs. overall width confusion?

Interesting that 1) donating blood uses a red spot, and 2) the colors don't change continuously (there are blue-orange jumps skipping yellow, and yellow-red jumps skipping blue).

Yeah only makes sense if you call it "desktop *NIX dominance" or maybe just "non-Windows dominance."

Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.

Oh no! Our helicopters have been satanically cursed!

(It's customary to get permission from tribe elders before naming military equipment after them, and in the above case there was a Lakota dedication ceremony for the UH-72A Lakota helicopter.)

Computer Modern or GTFO.

So, start a few minutes before midnight, get in 50 laps, then 50 the next day.

France made a big mistake to go all in.

Not only does Germany import electricity from France (which comes from...?), but Germany has (according to this) a substantially higher carbon footprint per capita.

If the only issue is cost and projects taking longer than expected, isn't that a good tradeoff for carbon neutral power?

And yes, of course, I would prefer renewables, you would prefer renewables, we all would. But it's somewhat disingenuous to decry the use of nuclear, advocate for renewables, and at the same time, rely heavily on coal, as Germany does (or at the very least, did recently.

I'm not a big fan

...

thousands of windmills

I see what you did there.

AFAIK in the USA, nuclear energy is the safest per unit energy generated. Solar is more "dangerous" simply because you can fall off a roof.

Nuclear energy has huge risks and potential for safety issues, yes. But sticking to the numbers, it is extremely safe.

Microwaves aren't resonant or anything fancy --- they're just dielectric heating.

Completely agree.

The Wikipedia article itself has this to say:

Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors who are unable to support the new extensions.

By that logic Lemmy/Mastodon/fediverse are already extinguished. Those of us in the fediverse are already "marginalized" wrt Twitter/Threads/Facebook/whatever.

There are very good reasons to hate Meta, but personally, I think EEE isn't the biggest issue.

Slack killed IRC integration mid 2018.

What exactly did Slack "allow" though? The continued existence of an ancient protocol with a niche but dedicated following of predominantly "old school" tech people?